73 Quotes by John Ajvide Lindqvist

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

I have never met a couple with such integrity, such closeness as those two. They comprised their own little universe.

Our fate is determined in rooms that must be easy to clean

Be me a little.

Without our flaws we would be like a well-oiled machine, and our actions and thoughts could be predicted through simulation, if we only had sufficient processing power. That will never happen. Our flaws are a variable outside the scope of such a calculation, and they drive us to great achievements or to utterly despicable deeds.

Jealousy was a fat, chalk-white snake in his chest. It writhed slowly, as pure as innocence and childishly plain. Replaceable. He was... replaceable.

He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep.

If life is a prison, then there is a moment in a person’s life when she realizes exactly where her walls are located, where the boundaries to her freedom lie. Whether there are walls, or possible escape routes.